Say hello to men who hate the NSA but love invading the privacy of women

[taim]

No they are not daft.  In this day and age phones, tablets, computers, are advertised with the "store once have it available everywhere" idea, and it's a comfortable idea.  You can't tell your phone "hey sync everything except those photos of me in a bikini".  And frankly, these celebrities have the bloody right to not be hacked, just like you do.

store once have it available everywhere....definitely not false advertising...definitely available everywhere.

 

But still I think they'll have to change that motto.

[DocM]

My problem is with the hack. There being anything there to be exposed is the celebs own doing. Who tripped the shutter on selfies, posed for pics or ran around naked on a beach? Made explicit films?

[compl3x]

If their photos are stored privately, it is their property, as yours would be. Whether it was compromising or not. It's no one else's right to illegally access your data and then share it on the net. I would never take naked photos or video of myself or a partner and store them, even as a average Joe, because I have no interest in it and I know the risks.

 

People seem to be taking a judgemental tone "oh, those women running around uncovered, those ###### should have known better, now they have to suffer!" 

 

One good thing about this is if the celebs sue and it raises awareness about the potential dangers of online storage.

[gohpep]

You know, I don't get what the whole deal is with people thinking that celebrities have to compromise because they're a high target. I would like someone to stop using the Internet since the NSA or someone could see your browsing history.

 

These people who look at these nudes are taking the role of the NSA, the NSA sifts through your private life, and these people are doing it too. The Internet should not be such a scary place, we should have all the benefits of it, not be blamed for using things that are available to us.

[mudslag]

 

 

In this day and age of the net, as many times as this has happened in the past, being a celeb automatically makes you a target. Regardless of the morality of stealing, viewing stolen digital media, it should be common sense by now, don't ever put anything on the net regardless how safe you think it might be that you would ever potentially regret later on. 

[LaP]

If their photos are stored privately, it is their property, as yours would be.

 

Yeah but i've seen many times people say that when you use Gmail or Hotmail you give away your right to privacy and the gov can get access to your infos without even a warrant and it's all fine.

 

The hypocrites are not only the people who complain about NSA and then watch those photos. They are also the ones who say it's okay for NSA to spy cause the net is public (even when the content is private) but then will ask the hackers involved in this to spend the rest of their life in jail.

 

Personally i think it's wrong either way. The difference is the hackers will pay with their life. The gov wont pay anything ever.

[+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹]

 

 

In this day and age of the net, as many times as this has happened in the past, being a celeb automatically makes you a target. Regardless of the morality of stealing, viewing stolen digital media, it should be common sense by now, don't ever put anything on the net regardless how safe you think it might be that you would ever potentially regret later on. 

 

this

 

 

comparing it to the OFFICIAL nsa spying is RETARDED too.      Seriously.  A bunch of amature hackers, wanted to get to see naked pictures of celebrities....  VS TAX PAID government agency spying on everyone.

 

huge difference.  

 

 

i am also very surpised that they did not expect to be hacked, and did not spend to effort and money (and they should have enough money, they are hollywood celebrities) to safeguard their data, and not store all pictures to be saved in cloud by default...

[timster]

two-factor authentication needs to be default for cloud providers, a username and password alone have proven time and time again that they aren't enough.

[Dot Matrix]

However, putting them in online storage isn't really the best idea in the world

This is what I don't understand. Microsoft will ban you for storing pornographic material. Doesn't Apple have the same set of regulations? Why are there pornographic images on iCloud?

[Praetor]

great article and it amazes me that people are failing to see the hypocrisy of those self entitled "privacy advocates". Some of those comments they made are truly disgusting.

 

And it doesn't matter that they did took nude photos and store them in a cloud; their privacy was breached and those that have privacy concerns were the ones pointing their fingers to them. But like the article said, the Internet made of ink so their hypocrisy is well engraved to anyone to see.

[Praetor]

I think there is a huge difference between the mass surveillance of every communication of every citizen, and viewing a few pics that some little #### gained assess to, by using publicly available software to hack a few celeb accounts.

 

They are both violations of privacy, no doubt, but one of them is off the charts, the other is a stupid prank.

 

posting nude photos in a breach of privacy is a stupid prank? oh dear...

[timster]

This is what I don't understand. Microsoft will ban you for storing pornographic material. Doesn't Apple have the same set of regulations? Why are there pornographic images on iCloud?

Microsoft will lock the account if there is porn in the public folder (I think they give the user a set number of hours to remove it), if it's stored in a private folder they won't do anything unless of course something raises a red flag anywhere.

[Gone]

Stealing nude pics that are not yours is wrong. Taking nude pics of yourself and storing it on an iCloud backup account is stupid. Taking nude pics of yourself is just plain stupid anyway, show in person or don't show at all.

 

Porn on the other hand.......

[Praetor]

Stealing nude pics that are not yours is wrong. Taking nude pics of yourself and storing it on an iCloud backup account is stupid. Taking nude pics of yourself is just plain stupid anyway, show in person or don't show at all.

 

Porn on the other hand.......

 

stupid or not, it's their business, not everyone else.

 

I would hate if my nude photos were to be released in to the wild, i would get so many calls from the pr0n business and i would hate that...  :laugh:

[Dot Matrix]

Taking nude pics of yourself is just plain stupid anyway,

You can't fault people for expressing their sexuality.

[123456789A]

does anyone else feel bad for all the other celebrities who barely get mentioned cause everyone is just interested in jennifer lawrence :p

 

also very sexist to think it wasn't a woman hacking the accounts...

 

She totally deserved to be hacked for making that BORING film hunger games.

[zaiger]

Zaiger will not be pleased..

https://forum.encyclopediadramatica.es/members/zaiger.2/

 

Thought that name sounded familiar

lol actually I think it is hilarious. They took out of context quotes from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" to somehow prove that I hate women.

[spenser.d]

great article and it amazes me that people are failing to see the hypocrisy of those self entitled "privacy advocates". Some of those comments they made are truly disgusting.

 

And it doesn't matter that they did took nude photos and store them in a cloud; their privacy was breached and those that have privacy concerns were the ones pointing their fingers to them. But like the article said, the Internet made of ink so their hypocrisy is well engraved to anyone to see.

Agreed.

[freak180]

 

 

In this day and age of the net, as many times as this has happened in the past, being a celeb automatically makes you a target. Regardless of the morality of stealing, viewing stolen digital media, it should be common sense by now, don't ever put anything on the net regardless how safe you think it might be that you would ever potentially regret later on. 

Not often I agree with you but yeah it should be common sense by now

[spenser.d]

Not often I agree with you but yeah it should be common sense by now

That's not really the point of the article though. The point is that these people seem to think its an atrocity that the NSA can hack into your private stuff that you perhaps stored in a cloud service (even though they probably aren't) yet when these celebrities actually get their private storage hacked by some random person, its their own fault. It's a glaring double standard and its complete nonsense. Hopefully whoever did this gets what's coming to them.

[freak180]

well i dont have much of a say when it comes to this kind of crap since it could have been avoided. I manage to find the bulk of pics. A lot of celebs are denying the pics of people pointed out they're full of crap

[Fergdog]

I feel bad that the celebs have to deal with this now but I don't feel bad for looking at the pics. I also wouldn't feel bad for the hackers if they get caught and get a long sentence.

[astropheed Veteran]

two-factor authentication needs to be default for cloud providers, a username and password alone have proven time and time again that they aren't enough.

 

I do believe there was two-factor authentication. The problem was that the area they were exploiting, by way of brute force authentication, didn't rely on the secondary factor. It's not that it wasn't there, it's just that it wasn't there... lol.

[nub]

... People do realize Reddit is made up of thousands of users right?

 

Might as well expand it to the entire internet.

[mudslag]

That's not really the point of the article though. The point is that these people seem to think its an atrocity that the NSA can hack into your private stuff that you perhaps stored in a cloud service (even though they probably aren't) yet when these celebrities actually get their private storage hacked by some random person, its their own fault. It's a glaring double standard and its complete nonsense. Hopefully whoever did this gets what's coming to them.

 

 

Who exactly are these people? Are we lumping everyone that's ever been on reddit into one group now and making a mass generalization? Reddit is a community based site with over a hundred million users, all with varying views and opinions. Having one group that argue the evils of the NSA does not automatically equate hypocrisy based on the actions of another. Nor is it even remotely similar to compare the actions of a gov run, tax payer backed system that abuses it's power to that of a lone hacker's actions and the rubbernecking curiosity over said actions. 

 

As for the victims, while they are in fact victims of this crime, they are also not free from responsibility of their actions. This is hardly the first time something like this has happened, nor will it be the last. As with Vegas, what happens there stays there, what you put on the net, stays on the net. These celebs are equally stupid for thinking their "private" stuff is some how immune from the darkside of the net. Again, if you ever say or do something and you are concerned it could come back to haunt you, don't put it on the net, period.